University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Synthesizing inorganic solid-state materials (rare earth containing oxyselenides) and evaluating their optical and electrocatalytic (HER and OER) properties.
Performing DFT calculations to understand the electrical, optical, and magnetic properties of materials.
Mentoring three graduate students and related research projects.
Employing machine learning to assess and discover materials for solid oxide fuel cell.
Applied machine learning approaches with experimental validation to search for new spinels for enhanced ionic conductivity and non-centrosymmetric compounds for laser applications.
Performed DFT calculations to understand electrical, optical, and magnetic properties of materials.
Discovered 11 new rare earth, metal-based semiconductors as potential materials for solar cells.
Designed 2 new metallic compounds having pink and gold yellow colors for jewelry applications.
Mentored 2 undergraduate and 5 graduate student research projects.
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, KA, India
Discovered two new barium-antimony-based ternary thermoelectric materials to convert heat to electricity.
Trained in solid state chemistry and materials science.
Explored rare earth-based ternary intermetallics having anisotropic near-zero thermal expansion property.
Synthesized two new intermetallics and established structural relations between them.
Published results in Inorganic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society as the first author.
University of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Completed a research project on electrochemical biosensors.
Indian Institute of Education and Research (IISER – Mohali) Punjab, India
Performed conformational analysis of cyclohexane using matrix isolation infrared spectroscopy.
Simulated various conformations of cyclohexane molecule using Gaussian as a tool for ab initio study